Kick-Ass 2 in the pipeline, confirms comic book writer Mark Millar

Hit Girl is set to make another appearance in Kick-Ass 2 (Pic: Daniel Smith)

Speaking on BBC Radio Five Live, Millar said: ‘The estimate is Kick-Ass will do 100 to 150 million [dollars] on DVD based on the American sales.’The sequel’s green-lit, we can go ahead and do the sequel.”The first made so much compared to what it cost it would be crazy not to,’ he told Radio 5’s Richard Bacon .Millar, promoting the British release of Kick-Ass on DVD, also told MTV: ‘We’re probably about nine months away from production starting, at the earliest, because Matthew Vaughn ‘s got to do X-Men: First Class.’Matthew just wants to get X-Men done next year then hopefully we’ll just go straight into Kick-Ass 2, that’s the plan.’The Scot, 40, has also claimed that he wants to cast A-list stars for his new film Nemesis, after speaking to Ridley Scott ‘s brother Tony Scott .’I got a call from him, literally a month ago. It was one of those very surreal things,’ Millar told the BBC.’He said “who do you fancy for it?”. I said “I don’t know, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp”, so he said “that’s good, we’ll give them a call.”‘Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall takes place immediately after the first book (and film), showing how Dave Lizewski has inspired amateur superheroes to rise up in New York City.A release date of 2012 has been initially pencilled in for the superhero action sequel, which director Matthew Vaughn previously claimed was ‘on hold’.